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17. When I opened Facebook
Thu Feb 2, 2017, 06:43 PM
Feb 2017

yesterday, this speech was the first thing on my page. I decided to 'read more'. As I read on, I started laughing thinking this was satire or goofiness. I looked at the source, thinking it was The Onion or Andy Borowitz. But the source was legit. So it is the satire /comic writer at the source. No it says WH correspondent. This can't be real. It is talking about Frederick Douglass as if he is a community organizer. What's this 'we' celebrated MLK's life last month, who we? Certainly not him.
Still not believing it was real, I moved on to the next item. Call with Australian PM, hung up on him. It too seemed comical and a joke, Moving on. 'Bad hombres down there' (in Mexico). What? Next? same Hey, what is going on? Where is the news?

I started to feel like I fell through the looking glass. Nothing was real. It was all satire. I was a a little shaken. I'm supposed to go to a local indivisible meeting tonight. Has it been canceled?

This mumble, jumble 'can't call it a speech' totally messed with my head. I can't take much more of this.

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